Divya Sharma is a British Indian multi-disciplinary artist and a Royal College of Art alumni based in London. Her practise could be described as a process of painting with fabric, fusing salvaged or constructed materials to bring to life imagined landscapes, layering embroidery to create more texture. With her practise, she is questioning, trying to understand where she stands in this hierarchy of social order, whether it is in the art canon or the society in general. Divya transforms her tapestry into a kind of text, looping yarn as one might join words. In doing so, she seeks to develop a new visual language — one that speaks across cultures, between past and present, and across distances.

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Divya is inspired by the self-taught technique of folk artists that is imbued with the personal and thus feels much more relevant than the institutional or academic technique. The imperfect perfection in the work of folk artists is the crookedness, the disproportional, a puzzle that does not fit. It allows for imperfection and error, reintroducing the “jittery hand” and the critical rejection of artistic perfection and virtuosity. She often combines tufting with glass beads, exploring how their surfaces catch and refract light in ways that deepen the visual and emotional resonance of her textiles.

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